Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-07-14
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

sion in water will not injure can be
beautifully cleaned by shaking it well
in a bottle half full of soap-suds, to.
which little prepared chalk has been
added, and afterwards rinsing in clear
water and wiping dry.
"A Texas negro was recently struck
By lightning and killed. In his pockets
were found two horseshoe magnets.
two copper cents that had melted to-
gether, Il nickel that was partly melted
and stuck to his watch, and the nickel
rim around his money purse was also
melted.
In upright boilers that part of the
tube nearest the fire, being covered
with water, remains uninjured for the
reason that the heat is taken up so
quickly that by the time the gases get
above the water-line they are not hot
enough to do serious damage.-BostO,s
Budget.
"A chemical examination of an
antique figure, and a fragment of
vase from the excavations at TellO, has
been made in Paris by Mons. Berthelot.
who finds that the vase consists of pure
metallic anthony. Heretofore it has
been generally supposed that this metal
was not known to the ancients.
Electric whistles, very melodious
in sound, and said to be less expensive
in manufacture than electric bells, are
being favorabfy received in France.
The whistle is made by fitting a small
brass tube with suitable apertures so
that it opens against the spring of n
straightforward commutor, or circuit
break. ''-ArEdnSdc0 IraU-
ejer.
What is the shortest sentence on
record was pronounced not long ago
by an English Justice. The convicted
prisoner had married second husband
while her first was living, undivorced,
but the circumstances were such that
the Judge said that he could not con-
scientiously sentence her to more than
five minutes imprisonment; and that
was the sentence.
Some of the trees of Arkansas have
peculiar properties. The fruit and roots
of the buckeye are used by Indians on
their fishing excursions. They put the
fruit and roots in bag, which they
drag through the water. In an hour or
so the fish rise to the surface dead.
Cattle die after eating of the fruit or
leaves. Man eats the fruit of the paw
paw, but hogs won't. Ropes and mats
are made of its bark. The fruit and
bark of the bay tree are supposed to be
a cure for rheumatism and intermittent
fever. -B0StOn Budget.
The researches of medical men in
England tend to sustain the theory
that scarlet fever has its origin in a dis
ease to which cows are subject. Few
subjects of investigation by physiolo-
gists can be more important than this,
as it may afford a means of prevent
ing the occurrence of one of the most
dreaded maladies of household life.
Germs of the same character have
been detected as the product, cause or
accompaniment of scarlet fever in per-
sons and of the disease of cows already
mentioned N. y Ledger.
There are more women in the city
of Brooklyn who smoke cigarettes"
says tobacconist of that city, ethan
anyone not in the tobacco business
would ever dream of. They prefer
cigarette made with waxed mouth
piece or with stiff paper end, as in
their use the tobacco does not stain the
lips or get into the mouth. We have
them made of the mildest and best
grade of Turkish tobacco and the thin
nest of rice paper. There are a great
many boys sent here for the goods by
the ladies. Messenger boys come some
times"
The Coroner of Ipswich, an Eng
fish town. before commencing an in
quest lately on the case of young lady
whose dead body had been found in a
pond, requested the newspaper report
ers to withdraw. They refused to do
SO, and the jury also stated that they
should decline to serve unless the court
We're an open one. The Coroner threat
ened to fine the jurymen, and the chief
constable, at his request, proceeded to
remove the reporters by force. The jury
persisting in refusing to receive evil
denee unless the reporters were adj
mitted. the Coroner adjourned the in
quiry for week.
Cation has pointed out some very
curious facts concerning the children
of professional men. He found, from
a study of the heredity of the members
of some of the largest scientific sOcie-
ties of London, that the legal profess
sion presented the most eminent men
and the fewest idiots. The medical
profession came next, and lastly cler-
gymen, who produced the smallest
number of eminent men and the
largest number of idiots and feeble
minded. The lawyers gave origin to
six times as many eminent men as the
clergy. The clergy gave origin to six
times as many idiots and feeble-minded